Sunil Amrith
@sunilamrith
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Historian of South and Southeast Asia @Harvard, 2017 #MacFellow, author of UNRULY WATERS, husband, father, jazz lover...
Cambridge, MA
Joined February 2013
A review of Unruly Waters in @nature. Thank you @philipcball for your thoughtful reading.
nature.com
Nature - Philip Ball plunges into a chronicle of the subcontinent’s human and environmental histories.
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RT @_alice_evans: "Unruly Waters" - my podcast with @sunilamrith @Harvard_History . On struggles to gain mastery over water, across Asia. N….
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It was so much fun to record a "Four Questions" podcast today with the wonderful @alice_evans.
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RT @jscaseddon: "Even radical climate change action won’t save [Himalayan] glaciers, endangering 2 billion people." #water But there are so….
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Even radical climate change action won’t save glaciers, endangering 2 billion people
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Thank you @PorterSqBooks for a lovely book event for Unruly Waters this evening, so glad to have such a wonderful independent bookstore on our doorstep!.
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RT @sunilamrith: Cambridge friends, I’ll be speaking about my new book, Unruly Waters, at the wonderful @PorterSqBooks on Tuesday Jan 29, 7….
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This will be a highlight of #JLF2019.
Looking fwd to our session this morning #Cellphone Nation at Jaipur Litfest #JLF2019 with @RaviReports @BDUTT @ZEEJLF @NamitaGokhale_ @Harvard_Press
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At Jaipur for #JLF2019, looking forward to hearing many amazing writers! The Indian ed of Unruly Waters (@PenguinIndia) will be launched here tomorrow.
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PS. For anyone interested in the material in my @TheAtlantic piece, do check out the vital work of @ClimateChirper.
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An extract from Unruly Waters in @TheAtlantic.
“Arguably no other part of the global climate system affects more people, more directly.” A half-century of pollution, irrigation, and farming projects in India may have destabilized the South Asian monsoon, writes @sunilamrith.
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Thank you @_alice_evans!! I’m looking forward to it very much.
How do unruly waters shape our politics?. How have people's struggles to manage water shaped the political & economic development of South Asia?. I am VERY excited for my podcast with historian @sunilamrith @Harvard 🤩
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Cambridge friends, I’ll be speaking about my new book, Unruly Waters, at the wonderful @PorterSqBooks on Tuesday Jan 29, 7pm. All welcome!.
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A very important esay by @ChinmayTumbe.
"The great Indian migration wave, which is semi-permanent, male-dominated, and remittance-based, is the world’s largest and longest voluntary stream of migration. There are over a 100 million migrant workers in India."
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RT @agemig_MPI: In the final post of this series, @meghaamrith asks what the future might look like for #migrant workers in Asia who have b….
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RT @nytimes: Breaking News: Scientists say the world’s oceans are heating up faster than previously thought, a finding with dire implicatio….
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An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.
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RT @laphamsquart: Today on LQ: An excerpt from “Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History” by @sunilamr….
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RT @bigissuenorth: ‘The landscape of contemporary South Asia was shaped by responses to the disastrous famines of the late nineteenth centu….
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At the end of 2018, I’m especially grateful to @_alice_evans and @samuelmoyn for tweets that have been consistently illuminating, entertaining, and insightful!.
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